Sister Joan started the Milk Run back in 1992 and the program has been running every 2 weeks ever since. It delivers milk formula to mom’s who can not breast feed because they are HIV positive or for other reasons. The babies are entitled to 1 box of baby milk formula every 2 weeks until their 1st birthday. Some continue past that point – our oldest recipient is a 27 year old, severely handicapped girl.
The Milk Run events start every 2nd Friday at 7 am in Rang Moo community of Klong Toei slum. We finish by 10:30 am. This is a Google Maps link to where we meet at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RCYSXM2dBkjPBF1g6
Here are the posts from past events…
Adri came to help on a day she’s flying to Indonesia – what a commitment to helping other people!… 🙏🏻
We delivered 11 packs of milk formula to Rong Moo where Adri observed we are getting more dads than moms come to collect.
After our usual coffee break, another 13 people were served in the Suan Ooy neighborhood. I unloaded the truck, did the Mission inventory and finished at the car wash…
We had a full crew this Friday: Adri, Irza and Willy joined, the full Team Indonesia! 🥰
We gave 10 packets of milk formula in Rong Moo, then drove to the usual coffee break at Amazon Cafe….
My birthday was in May but Adri and the boys waited until they were all available and hyper surprised me with a wonderful chocolate cake and all the birthday works!…
From there we proceeded to Suan Ooy where we registered another newborn and delivered 14 more boxes of milk supplement.
Adri came to help make this cloudy Milk Run another success.
As usual, me met at the Bus Terminal (Eastern) and arrived to Rong Moo by 7 am.
We delivered 10 boxes of baby milk formula and registered another new born.
In Suan Ooy another 13 mom’s and elderly received their biweekly milk formula supplement.
Adri and Miron came to help and we had a great and very efficient Milk Run.
W added another newborn in Rong Moo community and delivered 12 bags of milk formula.
After our usual coffee break, Miron continued with me to Suan Ooy where we distributed another 15 bags of milk powder and I continued to the car wash.
Another good day of practicing service and bring useful to others…
Adri and Miron came to help on this perfect April morning.
We delivered 10 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo.
Two moms oversleept but found us at the Amazon Cafe to pick up another 2 boxes!…
Miron and I continued to Suan Ooy community where we registered a new baby and delivered another 15 packets of milk formula.
Here are more pics from that Milk Run…
We did our visit to Rong Moo at 7 am and delivered 15 packs of milk formula. We then drove to the nearby Starbucks for our usual coffee break.
Adri was missed… Willy, Irza, Miron and Milos had a great chat and later drove to Suan Ooy to deliver another 15 packets of baby formula.
Sister Cecilia drive from Ratchaburi and Adri and Miron also joined to help with another annual registration for the Rice Run good assistance program.
Sister Joan started giving good items to elderly in the early 1990s but by 2001 she was helping so many that it needed to be based on registration and bi weekly food deliveries. In 2011 we were helping 120 seniors and this attendance number has been steadily trending down.
Until this year when the number of registered Thai seniors actually rose up, from 58 last year to 63 this time.
The criteria remains the same: only seniors from Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities, over 60 years old and with no means to support themselves qualified. We asked them all to bring their electric bills as a proof of how much they can afford to pay and visited a number of them to make sure they really need help.
We ended up with 63 people we will give rice, cooking oil, fish sauce and pork for the next 12 months.
Adri came to meet me at the Bus Terminal and Irza joined us at Rong Moo.
We delivered 14 packages of milk formula in Rong Moo, took our usual coffee break and drove to Suan Ooy to give another 15 milk packages there.
I started as usual, at 6 am on Asok, packed Sister’s truck, picked up Adri and Willy at Bus Terminal and came to Rong Moo at 7 am to meet Miron and the moms.
We gave out 14 packs of milk formula to our registered recipients in Rong Moo and another 14 in Suan Ooy.
Here are more pics from that beautiful morning…
Another great Milk Run with Adri and Irza. We delivered 26 packs of milk formula to the two Klong Toei communities we support.
The small Thai food restaurant next door to our storage room caused a flooding… we had water with big spots of oil floating on the floor…
Fortunately, the friendly staff from landlord’s office took care of the clean up in record time! 😃